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    seat of Jokkmokk Municipality in Norrbotten County, province of Lapland, Sweden, with 2,786 inhabitants in 2010. The Lule Sami name of the place (composed...
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    Bengt Djupbäck, better known as Jokkmokks-Jokke (20 May 1915 – 15 June 1998), was a Swedish musician who had his greatest successes during the 1960s–70s...
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  • Puottaure (category Populated places in Jokkmokk Municipality)
    Puottaure is a small village in the southern part of Jokkmokk Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden. It had about 140 inhabitants in 1950 but has now...
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    bus or car from Gällivare. Kvikkjokk can be reached by bus or car from Jokkmokk. Jäckvik (Jäkkvik) can be reached by bus or car from Umeå, Arvidsjaur or...
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    Vuollerim (category Populated places in Jokkmokk Municipality)
    [vʉˈɔ̌lːɛrɪm]) (Lule Sami: Vuolleriebme) is a village (tätort)situated in Jokkmokk Municipality, Norrbotten County, in northern Sweden with 623 inhabitants...
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  • Samuel Hübinette (category People from Jokkmokk Municipality)
    Samuel Hübinette, a.k.a. The Crazy Swede (born 15 September 1971, in Jokkmokk, Norrbotten County), is a Swedish professional race car driver and Hollywood...
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    Sarek National Park (Swedish: Sareks nationalpark) is a national park in Jokkmokk Municipality, Lapland in northern Sweden. Established in 1909, the park...
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    Porjus (category Populated places in Jokkmokk Municipality)
    Porjus is a locality situated in Jokkmokk Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden with 328 inhabitants in 2010. Geographically it is situated by the shores...
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    Östersund, Strömsund, Dorotea, Vilhelmina, Storuman, Sorsele, Arvidsjaur, Jokkmokk, Gällivare, Svappavaara, and Vittangi. It is also called Inlandsvägen (The...
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  • The schools are located in Karesuando, Lannavaara, Kiruna, Gällivare and Jokkmokk in Norrbotten County and in Tärnaby in Västerbotten County. Grades 1-6...
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  • (non-Sami) villages of Björkholmen and Randijaur in the municipality of Jokkmokk in the province of Norrbotten in northern Sweden. It is located near the...
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    Kikkejaur and Mausjaur, and Malå. In 1956, the Swedish Sámi village in Jokkmokk was dismantled, as reindeer herding was halted in the area. Instead, two...
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  • 2024. Nutti Lamp, Anna-Kajsa (6 April 2023). "Här har Netflix byggt upp Jokkmokks marknad i Vittangi". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). Archived from the original...
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  • Kåbdalis (category Populated places in Jokkmokk Municipality)
    Kåbdalis (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈkɔ̌bːdalɪs]) is a small locality in Jokkmokk Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden, with 91 inhabitants 2005. In the...
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    Murjek (category Populated places in Jokkmokk Municipality)
    Murjek (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈmɵ̌rjɛk]) is a village situated in Jokkmokk Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden with 83 inhabitants in 2005. The village...
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  • audience. Inga Juuso was a Norwegian joiker, actress and artist born in Jokkmokk, Sweden in 1945 and grew up in Alta, Norway. She died in 2014. She was...
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    with public authorities in Arjeplog Municipality, Gällivare Municipality, Jokkmokk Municipality, and Kiruna Municipality. In 2011, this list was enlarged...
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    Kvikkjokk (category Populated places in Jokkmokk Municipality)
    a small village situated in Jokkmokk Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden. It is located 120 km northwest of Jokkmokk. Several hiking trails start...
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  • early 2010s has been the Kallak mine in Jokkmokk Municipality. Beowulf Mining's Swedish subsidiary, Jokkmokk Iron Mines, has conducted exploratory mining...
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  • Nattavaara (category Populated places in Gällivare Municipality)
    area, with Jokkmokk being slightly further away to the southwest. The only paved roads are to the north and the east, whereas the Jokkmokk road transitions...
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    when the International Year of Indigenous People was proclaimed open in Jokkmokk, Sweden by the United Nations. Since then, celebrating the day has become...
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    Máttut - máddagat: the roots of Saami ethnicities, societies and spaces/places. Publications of the Giellagas Institute, 1458-6282; 12. Oulu: Giellagas-instituhtta...
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    1934–37. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 for Anders Rossa, a Jokkmokk Sami who, with Pava Tuorda, accompanied A...
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    Gällivare (category Populated places in Arctic Sweden)
    to the Kaitum Sámi community. Since 1605, they had had their church in Jokkmokk, but in the early 18th century, the Swedish parliament received rumors...
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    also been historically spoken in Piteå, Boden, Älvsbyn and northeastern Jokkmokk municipality. The grammar of Meänkieli is very similar to Finnish, with...
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    the British/Swedish Beowulf Mining was granted an exploration licence in Jokkmokk municipality, with the intention of exploiting the iron ore at a mine in...
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    Norway Västerbotten county in Sweden The municipalities of Gällivare, Jokkmokk and Arjeplog in Swedish Lappland were designated a UNESCO World Heritage...
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    Sámi-language speakers are found in the municipalities of Arjeplog, Gällivare, Jokkmokk, Kiruna, and other parts of Norrbotten. Romani (also known as Rromani Ćhib)...
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  • List of urban areas in Sweden (category Populated places in Sweden)
    Johansfors Emmaboda Municipality 409 113.70 281.0 359.72 931.7 2272 Jokkmokk Jokkmokk Municipality 2,786 359.07 887.3 775.89 2,009.5 8628 Jonsered Partille...
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    monumental frescoes on the Akkats dam and a mural on the power station facing Jokkmokk in Swedish Sápmi. Bengt completed "Thor's Hammer", a monumental, colorful...
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